Community Emergency Medicine Outreach Program

CEMO, the Community Emergency Medicine Outreach program, is

Targeted: to enable rural physicians and nurses to update knowledge and skills in emergency medicine. We also welcome pharmacists, administrators and medical learners.

Relevant: we emphasize best practice and evidence-based medicine, including considerations for safe patient transfer. Speakers are practicing emergency physicians who understand the rural practice context.

Needs-based – we work with your Chief to select and tailor topics to your needs; this is not a one-size-fits-all program.

Topics selected for recent CEMO programs:

We’ve held recent CEMO events at:

Procedural sedation and analgesia

Diabetic emergencies

DVT and pulmonary embolus

Pericarditis and myocarditis

Pneumothorax - chest tubes and pigtail catheters

CT scans of the head

Plain-film radiology

Oncologic emergencies

Sepsis and septic shock

Toxicology

Ectopic pregnancy

Ocular emergencies

Ankle and foot injuries

Wrist injuries

Male genital emergencies

Critical care transfers

Establishing Flow in the emergency department

Emergency department billing

… and new topics are being added all the time on request

Almonte General Hospital

Arnprior and District Memorial Hospital

Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital

Cornwall Community Hospital

Deep River and District Hospital

Glengarry Memorial Hospital (Alexandria)

Hawkesbury and District General Hospital

Kemptville District Hospital

Pembroke Regional Hospital

Renfrew Victoria Hospital

Smiths Falls District Hospital / Perth

Winchester District Memorial Hospital

… and we are taking bookings for upcoming events

Program costs– are shared between your hospital and the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa